Motivational Quotes

Reality

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

- Daney, Serge

Best Quotes about Reality

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Ballard, J. G.

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

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You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Smith, Huston

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand